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Dreaming of a Linux Ultrabook? Meet the New ZaReason UltraLap 430
- chaud 14y agoUp to 6 hours of battery life does not seem fitting for a new Ultrabook.
- shrughes 14y agoThat's a horrible laptop.
- akent 14y agoIt does look terrible. Why do people upvote submissions like this?
- tmurray 14y agoit's a horrible article; besides some PR fluff, the description of the laptop is "it's a completely standard Ivy Bridge ultrabook except with Linux preinstalled." no examination of the bizarre claims about designing for Linux versus Windows or anything like that, just "hey, here's a thing! look at how neat it is!"
- nubela 14y agougly, and a resolution befitting of the 90s?
- guelo 14y agoSadly that resolution is all too common in this decade.
- urlwolf 14y agoNo developer will use a screen with only 756 pixels in height.
- Stratoscope 14y agoThe touchpad is in completely the wrong place! They centered it in the laptop body, instead of putting it where it belongs for a touch typist, centered under the B key.
- rwmj 14y agoI'm loving my ThinkPad X60s which would be about the same size and runs Linux perfectly (even if it does ship with a "built for Windows" sticker).
- mootothemax 14y agoWith a 14.1-inch HD (1366-by-768) glossy LED backlit display. My understanding is that laptop manufacturers tend to think of consumers as rather simple types who won't get all the fuss about screen resolutions, hence chucking out 1366x768 as the display standard. However, if you're going to pitch a laptop at developers, why on earth wouldn't you add a few extra dollars to the price and go with something like 1600x900? Dell seem to be making the same mistake with their "developer" laptop (although I believe Dell are somewhat cheekily marketing the laptop at people who might buy in the belief that's what developers would like to use, not the developers themselves). Very frustrating. And a very poor show from PC World claiming that this is the laptop of one's dreams. Obligatory plug: don't care about playing games? The laptop I have right now, a lowly HP ProBook 6450b, is the best developer purchase I've ever made. I only use Linux under a VM, but the support's meant to be there as well: http://www.linlap.com/wiki/hp+probook+6450b http://www.linlap.com/wiki/hp+probook+6450b
- joelhaasnoot 14y agoI used a Dell E5420 for a while as main dev machine. That range of laptops had a $50 upgrade to 1600x900 (as opposed to the consumer models where it costs $150 or more...)
- mootothemax 14y agoI used a Dell E5420 for a while as main dev machine. That range of laptops had a $50 upgrade to 1600x900 (as opposed to the consumer models where it costs $150 or more... I've never bought a Dell business laptop, purely out of interest what's their after-sales support like? Do they continue issuing driver updates etc?
- joelhaasnoot 14y agoNot using it anymore, but a year afterwards they're still issuing firmware/BIOS updates. Drivers are also updated. Never called their support line.
- davidw 14y ago
- acabal 14y agoI was considering buying this one last week (it was between this one and a Dell XPS 14). The only pro it has over the Dell, besides price, is the keyboard. I use the pgup/pgdn/home/end keys at the side of the keyboard all the time and can't imagine living without them. I don't understand why Dell decided to follow Apple's lead and get rid of them in favor of the chiclet keyboard with the horrible arrow keys... It's especially strange since they're marketing the XPS 13 as the "Ubuntu for developers" laptop. Am I the only one who feels this way? I eventually decided to get neither, because this one is quite ugly and rather expensive for what you get, and the Dell has a crap keyboard, has problems with Ubuntu 12.04, and is also quite expensive (though worth the price for the parts). Instead I'm buying a 512 SSD to hopefully make my old laptop feel like new!